Stories may have political impact less by persuading than by reminding people which
side they are on

Stories may have political impact less by persuading than by reminding people which
side they are on

July 28, 2017

Francesca Polletta, sociology, via NiemanLab, July 28, 2017

Professor of sociology Francesca Polletta and Jessica Callahan at the University of
California Irvine look at how “the rise of right-wing media outlets and the profusion
of user-shared digital news” have changed storytelling (paywall), asking the question,
“How was a story of middle-class whites pushed aside by a parade of minority groups,
abandoned by the government, and treated with disdain by liberals made real?”